What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman’s reputation and sentences them to eighty lashes.
What he says may be true for English, but why should I want to go into this God’s house if only English are there? If God wanted us in this house than he would have sent our ancestors such a book.
Well, I have five brothers—Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider—and each one of them the very opposite of their name.
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It’s another war, I think.
She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile—if she smiles at a man he will think, ‘Ah, she loves me,’ Mohamed explained. As
One program that deplored the high incidence of wife beating drew hundreds of letters from angry men, who insisted that beating their wives was a God-given right.
Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And
It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.
It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of the people who made the book. I can figure out who they were, or how...
In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress or to stimulate the male sex urge.
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.
I was struck, as always, that a heathen poet from long ago should know so much of the human heart, and how little that heart changes, though great cities fall and new dispensations sweep away the old...
I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.
I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father’s madness harrowed.
I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there...
And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?
The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more t...
If her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam. It